Unit 7916

Category: layer    dug in 2004

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: platform fill,Room fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Description: Arbitrary pit sunk into SW corner of Space 100 to determine floor level.
Fast track 

 

Discussion: The goal of this unit is to find the level of the floor. It was begun with the pick rather than the trowel. While the fill was heterogeneous at first, containing many scattered animal bones, it soon became more compact with fully visible fallen mud bricks and larger plaster pieces. Some small stones present. X-finds: 1 worked bone, 1 piece of clay ball. At the bottom of layer, we came down on and cut into (inadvertently) the top part of a bin. Excavation was halted so we can brıng the rest of Space 100 down to the archaeological level tomorrow.

Overexcavated into platform construction deposit 7957? (DE 2009)

Thickness of deposit and volume estimaterd in PX (DE 18/07/2009)

Thickness of deposit and volume estimaterd in PX (DE 18/07/2009) 

 

Recognition: arbitrary 

Definition: arbitrary 

Execution: pick, trowel 

Condition: good 

Consistency: loose -> dense 

Colour: mottled 

Texture: silty -> clay-ey 

Bedding: layer containing top of bin 

Inclusions: disarticulated animal bones; in the lower part rocks, fallen mud brick, charcoal & plaster bits, a few pieces of pottery 

Post-depositional Features: cultural 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 7957 below:7912 / 7913 / 7914 / 7915equal to: (Click to view the record) 7921, 7938 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 40 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 15 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 49

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 334

Features:: none

Finds Room Information:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

 

Lab Team Data

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2004 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 2

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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